Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1978
ISBN 10: 0905617053 ISBN 13: 9780905617053
Da: Harbor Books LLC, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Illustrated white card covers, 144pp with lots of illustrations and Fleet list by Michael Crowdy. Contents clean and unmarked.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, Cumbria, UK, 1976
ISBN 10: 0905617002 ISBN 13: 9780905617008
Da: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
Prima edizione
Soft Cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Stapled paperback, 56 pages including many black-and-white photographs; amateurishly laminated, finger soiling to fore edge, scattered light soiling throughout, ink writing on three pages and back cover, ink signature/city/date of previous Portuguese-Canadian owner (a ship model maker and published ship historian, book acquired from his estate, and in his defence I must say that my guess is that he purchased this booklet "as is", as almost all of the many books I acquired are in far better condition). See also our other World Ship Society titles, and for Robin Gardiner's The History of the White Star Line, and for Dunn Lawrence's Palm Line.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, Cambria, UK, 1983
Da: Charles Lewis Best Booksellers, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Octavo, [20.5cm/8.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 79, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &ct. Includes British Shipping Tables, Scrap & Build Fleet Lists, Shipping Loan Fleets Lists, The British Shipping (Assistance) Act, 1935 &1939. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . The British Shipping (Assistance) Act of 1935 aimed to subsidize the British shipping industry in the context of the economic depression of the 1930s. While one of its purposes was to safeguard seamen's jobs, it did so only for white British seamen, thus discriminating on the grounds of race. One of the requirements for payment of the subsidy was that the ship employed only 'British seamen'. Thus, in the wake of the Act, many ship-owners sacked all but their white employees, and numerous Indian lascars found themselves suddenly without employment.This discriminatory Act was met with considerable resistance. The Colonial Seamen's Association, which brought South Asian seamen together with their black, Arab and Chinese counterparts, was formed in reaction to the Act, in order to better mobilize against it. They held numerous meetings in which the Act was denounced. In May 1935, Shapurji Saklatvala gave a speech decrying the Act at the Coloured National Mutual Social Club in South Shields. Opposition to the Act was also voiced in India where there were even threats of retaliation against white workers there. With protest against the Act coming from the India Office and Colonial Office as well as the CSA and other organizations, the discrimination was removed in March 1936. In exceptionally good condition.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, Cumbria, UK, 1967
Da: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
Prima edizione
Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Stapled paperback, 80 pages including many black-and-white photographs; very gently used but often, finger soiling to fore edge, ink signature/city/date of previous Portuguese-Canadian owner (a ship model maker and published ship historian, book acquired from his estate), but text pages very clean and unmarked. See also our other World Ship Society titles, and for Jürgen Abert Hans' very scarce Neptun Bremen. Die Chronik der Götterflotte,
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1961
Da: Antiquarius Booksellers, Falkland, BC, Canada
Prima edizione
Printed Wrappers. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Brief history of the British Shipping company, William Sloan & Co. 11pp, illustrated. Clean, undamaged copy with a sound, stapled binding. Weight, 20g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, Cumbria, UK, 1981
ISBN 10: 0905617169 ISBN 13: 9780905617169
Da: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
Prima edizione
Soft Cover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Stapled paperback pamphlet, 56 pages including many black-and-white photographs; very gently used, very clean and unmarked. See also our listings for Somner's BEN LINE: Fleet List and Short History, and his From 70 North to 70 South: A History of the Christian Salvesen Fleet.
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Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, Cumbria, UK, 1991
ISBN 10: 0905617622 ISBN 13: 9780905617626
Da: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
Prima edizione
Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good ++. First Edition. Stapled paperback pamphlet, 56 pages including black-and-white illustrations;---laid in is a handwritten letter dated "8/12/91" to the previous owner, signed "Dick" (see below);---very gently used, ink signature/date "Xmas 1991" of previous Portuguese-Canadian owner (a ship model maker and published ship historian, book acquired from his estate) and his notation "a gift from Dick Greenwood" (see below), pages very clean and unmarked. See also our other World Ship titles, including The Saint [St.] George Steam Packet Company 1821 - 1843, written by Dick Greenwood, and for Robin Gardiner's The History of the White Star Line, and Dunn Lawrence's Palm Line.
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Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, Cumbria, UK, 1984
ISBN 10: 0905617339 ISBN 13: 9780905617336
Da: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
Prima edizione
Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Trade paperback, 120 pages including many black-and-white illustrations; gently used, but city/date in pencil on first (blank) page, and top corner of back cover and last 18/20 pages gently wrinkled, probably due to exposure to moisture but no staining visible, otherwise very clean and unmarked. See also our other World Ship titles, and our listings for Harvey's Cory Towage Ltd. : A Group History, and for, Allan Ford's United Towing, 1920 - 1990 : A History, Revised Edition, and for Edward Brady's Tugs, Towboats and Towing.
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Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal UK, 1984
Da: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Larger format trade softcover 239 pages clean tight and unmarked but light rippling throughout from dampness, not as bad as it may sould.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, Cumbria, UK, 1995
ISBN 10: 0905617762 ISBN 13: 9780905617763
Da: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good ++. First Edition. Stapled paperback pamphlet, 24 pages including 2 black-and-white illustrations;---"Best wishes, Dick, St. George's Day, 1995" in ink on title page (see also my note below regarding Dick);---very gently used, light rubbing to back red cover, pages very clean and unmarked (this book previously owned by Portuguese-Canadian ship model maker and published ship historian A. A. de Moraes, book acquired from his estate [see our listings for rare articles authored by him, or for more interesting books from this same man, many in Portuguese, search our listings using the keyword Portuguese-Canadian]). See also our other World Ship titles, including Nourse Line by Perry and Laxon (but "a gift from Dick Greenwood"), and for Philip Rentell's Historic White Star Liners, and Dunn Lawrence's Palm Line. Signed by Author.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1970
Da: Maiden Voyage Booksellers, Kennebunk, ME, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 92 pp; staple-bound booklet; 9 page history of this Dutch shipping company; followed by Fleet List; profusely illustrated with b & w photos; has small, circular stain spot to right edge of front cover; some rubbing to covers; published to commemorate the company's 100th Anniversary; in illustrsted wraps.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1973
Da: Maiden Voyage Booksellers, Kennebunk, ME, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good +. 104 pp; company history of this Danish shipping company; Fleet List; profusely illustrsated with b & w photos; plus 3 full-color illustrations; in full-color illustrated wraps.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1966
Da: Maiden Voyage Booksellers, Kennebunk, ME, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Good +. 13 pp; staple-bound pamphlet with 2 page history of the EAGLE OIL TRANSPORT COMPANY; with rest being a Fleet List with b & w photos; some staining and browning to covers; illustrated paper covers.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1970
Da: Maiden Voyage Booksellers, Kennebunk, ME, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. 92 pp; staple-bound booklet; 9 page history of this Dutch shipping company; followed by Fleet List; profusely illustrated with b & w photos; published to commemorate the company's 100th Anniversary; in illustrsted wraps.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1988
ISBN 10: 0905617487 ISBN 13: 9780905617480
Da: BOPBooks, Tauranga, BOP, Nuova Zelanda
Soft cover. Condizione: NF. Condizione sovraccoperta: NF. Photos, Folded Plan (illustratore). 1st. The agreement between the USA and Great Britain, under which 50 destroyers of WWI design and vintage were transferred to the Royal Navy as replacements for the many destroyes it had lost in the early days of WWI,I was signed in 1940. By August that year the first of the ships were handed over to Britain, at Canadian ports, with some later operating with the RCN. At the time of the transfer the RN was in urgent need of ships for convoy escorts and the forrmer US flush-deckers, while not ideally suited for these operations, helped fill the gaps before purpose-built escorts were available. The history and intent of the destroyers deal is well known and Arnold Hague in "The Towns" (the transferred ships were given names of towns common to Britain/Canada and the USA) lists all the ships involved, giving their original and adopted names, pennant numbers, service histories and eventual fate. Each ship was modified and altered in RN service and this process is coverered in the introductory text. Some ships were assigned to Allied navies and a number passed to Russia. These ships were not actually war winners --- but they were a vital addition to Allied naval strength at critical stage of convoy operations in the North Atlantic. First edition of 1988 from the World Ship Society, 92 pages. Illustrated throughout with b/w photos of individual ships plus others showing action, storm and collision damage etc, fold-out plan at back. Pictorial card covers are NF with few handling marks and hint wear at corners. Internally excellent, no inscriptions.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1983
ISBN 10: 0905617290 ISBN 13: 9780905617299
Da: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Prima edizione
1st ed. Paperback wide trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, black & white text-photos, tables, faint toning pages, covers little rubbed, spine ends lightly bumped & scuffed, minor edgewear. 79 pp. D. C. E. Burrell provides a brief history of the British shipping industry. The pamphlet gives a brief outline of the 1930s schemes to improve shipbuilding, with lists of the ships involved. Includes index of companies and ships at the rear.
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Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1986
ISBN 10: 090561741X ISBN 13: 9780905617411
Da: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Paperback small trade, very good condition, black & white photos, colour frontispiece, colour flags and funnels inside rear cover, one colour flag flyleaf and front cover, light toning pages, light foxing covers, light stain bottom corner front cover, minor edgewear cover corners. 132 pp. The story of one of the major shipping companies of the late-19th century. The Hain Steamship Company was founded in a small Cornish fishing port, and from there it was controlled until the takeover by P&O in 1917. The book has notes and lists of the ships - sailing, steam and motor - as well as the fascinating story of the Hain family, which can be traced back to the 16th century.
Editore: The World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1989
ISBN 10: 0905617509 ISBN 13: 9780905617503
Da: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Quarto. 12 x 8.5" 192pp. plus pictorial appendix including a chart of flags. Profusely illustrated from b&w photographs. Over 300 ships described and illustrated. Red cloth with gilt decoration in dust jacket.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1988
ISBN 10: 0905617460 ISBN 13: 9780905617466
Da: Booklover Oxford, Evesham, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very good condition used stapled Paperback Booklet Illustrated with b&w photos. Published in 1988 by World Ship Society, Kendal, UK. First Paperback edition Author: Graeme Somner. ISBN: 0905617460. Approx dims: 210mm h x 150mm w x 6mm d. Intact glossy condition pictorial cover with some slight rubbing/staining to back cover and slight signs of handling. 80 clean pages of English text with black & white ship photo plates, no inscriptions. Image shown is actual book for sale. ''Chronological history of this shipping company with a well illustrated and detailed Fleet List.''.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1985
ISBN 10: 0905617363 ISBN 13: 9780905617367
Da: Booklover Oxford, Evesham, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition stapled Paperback Booklet Illustrated with b&w photos. Published in 1985 by World Ship Society, Kendal, UK. First Paperback edition Author: Kjell A. Axelson and Tomas Johannesson. ISBN: 0905617363. Approx dims: 210mm h x 150mm w x 5mm d. Intact clean glossy condition pictorial cover with some slight creasing, slight rubbing and slight signs of handling. 64 clean pages of English text with black & white ship photo plates, no inscriptions. Image shown is actual book for sale. "In this account, 1915 has been chosen as the starting point of the company. This was the year in which Johan E. Gorthon, together with B.O. Borjesson and Frans Borjesson, founded the Activ Shipping Company at Helsingborg. In 1928 the Activ Shipping Company came under the control of Joh. Gorthon, so it would seem that 1915 is the most accurate starting point. This booklet is a chronological history of this shipping company and has a well illustrated and detailed Fleet List.''.
Editore: The World Ship Society, Kendal, Cumbria, UK, 1976
ISBN 10: 0950004480 ISBN 13: 9780950004488
Da: Post Horizon Booksellers, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. First U.K. Edition. 72pp w index. Illustrated w bw photographs and drawings. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Stapled binding sound. Small octavo: 21 x 15cm.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1982
Da: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Paperback copy with stapled spine, no dustjacket as issued. 68pp. B/w photographs. Not library copy, no inscriptions, few light marks near spine. (54/2).
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1980
ISBN 10: 090561710X ISBN 13: 9780905617107
Da: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Paperback book with stapled spine, no dustjacket as issued. 64pp. B/w photographs throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (17/6).
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1982
ISBN 10: 0905617223 ISBN 13: 9780905617220
Da: Booklover Oxford, Evesham, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition used stapled Paperback Booklet Illustrated with b&w photos. Published in 1982 by World Ship Society, Kendal, UK. First Paperback edition Author: R.S. Fenton. ISBN: 0905617223. Approx dims: 210mm h x 150mm w x 6mm d. Intact clean condition blue card cover with some slight creasing, slight rubbing and slight signs of handling. 68 clean pages of English text with 32 black & white ship photo plates and illustrations, no inscriptions. Image shown is actual book for sale. "This Monograph tells how the Monroe family entered shipowning and how their fleet weathered the many storms of the twentieth century to become, under the title of Monroe Brothers, one of the best known on the West Coast''.
Editore: Kendal, UK. World Ship Society Ltd., 1968
Da: Antiquariat Bernhardt, Kassel, Germania
kartoniert. Zust: Gutes Exemplar. Mit Vorbesitzereintrag und Bleistift-Anstreichungen. Cover mit altersentsprechenden Lagerungs-/Gebrauchsspuren. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, 57 Seiten Englisch 126g.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1984
ISBN 10: 0905617320 ISBN 13: 9780905617329
Da: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Prima edizione
1st ed. Paperback small trade, very good condition, black & white photos, few colour photos (flags), spine little faded as common (edges rubbed), minor edgewear corners. 239 pp. Soren Thorsoe records the story of the Danish shipping company that is one of Europe's largest ferry and logistics operators. The firm J. Lauritzen was founded in 1884 by Ditlev Lauritzen as a small trading firm selling building materials and later agricultural articles and coal. From 1888 the main focus was on shipowning, but the original connection with the commercial field was partly maintained, and new industrial fields were gradually added to the activities of the business. (Colour house flag and funnel marks on last two pages, and colour house flag on flyleaf.).
Editore: The World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1989
ISBN 10: 0905617525 ISBN 13: 9780905617527
Da: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 200pp. B/w photographic frontispiece, b/w photographs and maps throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no creasing to spine. (17/6).
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1989
ISBN 10: 0905617509 ISBN 13: 9780905617503
Da: BOPBooks, Tauranga, BOP, Nuova Zelanda
Hardcover. Condizione: NF. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG++. Photos, Ship Profiles, Art, Maps (illustratore). 1st. The Hamburg South America Line is one of the best known of the major German shipping companies and this excellent history, takes it from its founding in 1871 through to the container age. Equally well known, as a major maritime publishing house, is the World Ship Society and this history was only the second hard cover book it produced. This well established and significant international shipping operator virtually had to start from scratch to rebuild its fleet following two world wars. Trading was confined to its traditional routes from Europe to eastern South America until the mid-1950s when services were extended world-wide. The main section of the book deals with the company's fleet list with most of the approx 208 individual ships illustrated with a b/w photo, a few with art works or profile drawings. Other sections cover Argentine flag ships, foreign flagged ships, chartered and managed ships, tugs, lighters and small craft. This is a nautical book to be prized among any collection of maritime literature. First edition from the World Ship Society of 1989, 192 pages including index, illustrated with colour art frontis of liner Cap Polonio, b/w illustrations throughout -- mainly photos, at the back is a pictorial appendix of 10 coloured representative ship profiles from 1883 to the liner Cap Arcona of 1936, the last three on a fold-out final page, backing this is a display of coloured flags and funnel markings. Colour tone e/paper maps show Hamburg Sud's international liner services. Red hard covers with gilt spine titles and gilt house flag to the front are NF, ditto the text block, no inscriptions. Loosely enclosed is a letter from the company's managing director which accompanied the complimentary book The NF dust jack carries the company house flag on the front board.
Editore: World Ship Society, Kendal. UK, 1977
ISBN 10: 0905617010 ISBN 13: 9780905617015
Da: powellbooks Somerset UK., Ilminster, SOM, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This thin little booklet is a short history of the London & Overseas Freighters Ltd from 1949 - 1977.The text is accompanied by black & white photographs. The covers and text block are square and tight. All books are checked, and photographed in the boxes they are sent out in prior to posting as proof against delivery damage. Book price includes 2nd class parcel post in the Uk only.
Editore: The World Ship Society, Kendal, UK, 1989
ISBN 10: 090561755X ISBN 13: 9780905617558
Da: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 128pp. Colour frontispiece, b/w photographs, maps and plans throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no creasing to spine. (17/6).